@mouser:

"See this thread and the sample URL virtual folder in CHS: http://www.donationcoder....um/index.php?topic=4135.0"

Many thanks! I took a look at that and then played about with the virtual folders using that SQL.
Results:

• All clips with URLs were filtered OK using the rule: (Lower(ClipText) LIKE '%http:%') OR (Lower(ClipText) LIKE '%www.%') OR (Lower(ClipText) LIKE '%ftp:%')
• All clips with "the" in the text filtered OK using the rule: (Lower(ClipText) LIKE '%the%')
• Text filtering failed using a rule with an upper case character as the first character in the filter string- e.g., (Lower(ClipText) LIKE '%The%') - so it looks as though the syntax is upper-case-averse.   :tellme:  (?)

Is there somewhere you can point me to to bone up on the subject of SQL commands and syntax for CHS?

On a side issue: What is the best way to sort/reorder the virtual folders? I can't seem to get them to behave nicely at all by moving them around.

Sorry if some of this is irrelevant to this discussion thread.
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@rjbull:
Thankyou.

* Categorise/Organise your clips. Create rules/filters for incoming clips.
* Quickly access the source web page of internet clips.

It looks like the first item is therefore already in CHS - and is exactly what I had been looking for but didn't know how to do until mouser pointed it out.
The second item (i.e., retaining the reference of the source URL) would be very useful. That's the sort of thing that I notice OneNote does, but it only does it for copy/paste of text and/images from a web page. If you copy the same section of that web page as a OneNote image clip (using the clipping tool crosshairs), then it loses the source URL.

@cranioscopical:

"Help them to take arms against a C of troubles?"

Har-de-har. Very punny. You get a C+ for that one.      ;)

I happened to be browsing my archives and I came across these EDS PowerPoint images from 1996. This reminded me that, despite its good points as an organisation (and it had many good points), there were some very bad ones.

EDS Leadership model:



As if that wasn't enough BS on its own, there was more - e.g., a Performance Appraisal Process that was cruelly linked to it: (more BS - as a manger, I could see that the performance appraisal and any pay increase were completely unrelated to the model. It was, as Deming said, "A lottery".)




There's a LinkedIn EDS alumni group, and if you go take a look at that, you will see a discussion about the almost unending stream of ridiculous hype and meaningless BS that EDS subjected its employees to. They had to take it and seem to believe in it, otherwise they were clearly not of "executive calibre" (or whatever), and of course, some of the managers and staff actually seemed to believe in the BS. The Emperor had lovely new clothes.

EDS had invented "Death by PowerPoint" in those days too. I remember some of my clients telling me privately that they used to dread having to sit through a presentation by EDS. It was as though nobody in EDS had the intellectual capability or a sufficiently good grasp of written English to be able to communicate without BS and pictures, so it was all dumbed-down to the reading age of a 14-year old, slides all having amusing cartoons. Of course, there were some very smart people employed at EDS, but I think most of them managed to keep away from making these sorts of presentations. It did make you wonder though, in what low regard the clients were held, that EDS salespeople felt that it was OK to subject them to such mediocrity.